How to choose between Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress - Is there a best choice ?

How to Choose Between Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress - Is There a Best Choice ? /MarcoBarbosa

● Joomla! ( jumla ) means “all together” or “as a whole”' (Swahili) ● Since 2005 (2000 for mambo) [1] ● 189,429 weekly downloads ● 4.641+ extensions

● MTV Networks Quizilla (Social networking) - (link) ● TNA Wrestling (link) ● Citibank (Financial institution intranet) - Not publicly accessible ● Linux.com (link)

● English rendering of the Dutch word “druppel”, which means “drop” (as in “a water droplet”). ● Since 2001 [1] ● 62,500 weekly downloads ● 7.274+ extensions

● The White House (link) ● Ubuntu (link) ● Le Figaro (link) ● OpenSource.com (link)

● Official successor of b2/cafelog ● Since 2003 [1] ● 433,767 weekly downloads ● 9,157+ plugins

● TechCrunch (link) ● IcanHasCheezBurger (link) ● PlayStation Official Blog (link) ● NASA’s Ames Research Center (link)

Popularity

Google trends

Joomla Sweden – All Years Wordpress Drupal

Joomla Worldwide – Past 12 months Wordpress Drupal

Alexa (site ranks)

Traffic Rank

[2] Open Source CMS Awards

Best Open Source PHP CMS 2009 1. Drupal 2. WordPress 3. Joomla! 2008 1. Drupal 2. Joomla, CMS Made Simple 2007 1. Joomla 2. Drupal 3. e107

The Differences

Frontend Backend Admin Login Password LOGIN ● Template System ● Manage Content ● Displays Content ● Install Extensions Drupal supports multisites installation out of the box. Wordpress from 3.0+ or with MU Joomla must extend.

Joomla Drupal Wordpress Content Articles Pages & Stories Pages & Posts Sections & Categorization Categories Taxonomy Categories & Tags Components, Extensions Modules & Plugins Modules & Blocks Plugins & Widgets Design Positions Regions Widget areas

Design

css images html templateDetails.xml Template index.php component.php favicon.ico

Developing

Joomla Drupal Wordpress Model-View-Controller Presentation-Abstraction- Plugin Application (MVC) Control (PAC) Program Interface (API) Fair Documentation Good Documentation Great Documentation MySQL MySQL/PostgreSQL MySQL PHP 4.3+ PHP 4.4.0+ PHP 4.3+

Strengths

Joomla Drupal Wordpress Blogging Social Network E-commerce Templates Framework SEO Flexibility Resources Community Learning Curve

Wordpress S F I L M E P X L I C Joomla! I B I I L T I Y T Y Drupal

The CMS Showdown [4] http://www.cmsshowdown.com March 2009

Results

Joomla Drupal Wordpress Total Hours 57.25 79.25 90.5 Hours spent on 15 21.75 36.5 front end Html validation Yes No (8 errors) No (8 errors) CSS Validation No (1 error) No (7 errors) No (21 errors) Page weight 140K 180K 154K Lines of custom 30 220 1,808 JS/PHP code

So..Is there a best choice?

Or, it's just a matter of taste

If a CMS would be a celebrity..

Wordpress ● Very Popular. ● Suitable for anyone. ● Stylish.

Joomla ● Easy to create attractive sites. ● “ It just works ”. ● Large market.

Drupal ● Drupal knows best. ● Deeper learning curve. ● No problems it can't solve.

Thank you! iam@marcobarbosa.com marcobarbosa.com /MarcoBarbosa

References [1] Open Source CMS Market Share Report 2009 [2] Open CMS Awards [3] Wordpress Template Hierarchy Diagram [4] The CMS Showdown Idealware - Comparing Open Source Content Management Systems Survey Analysis Part 1: Developers and Documentation Custom Post Types in Wordpress 3 Wordpress vs Joomla vs Drupal Joomla and Drupal - Which One is Right for You? Version 2 What everybody ought to know about Joomla Why running the White House Web site on Drupal is a political disaster waiting to happen

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